12.03.2013 | EAST OF WINONA, Texas -- In this file photo, crews work on construction of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline near County Road 363 and County Road 357, east of Winona, Texas. In a move that disappointed environmental groups and cheered the oil industry, the Obama administration on Jan. 31, 2014, said it had no major environmental objections to the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
(AP Photo/The Tyler Morning Telegraph, Sarah A. Miller [file])

AMHERST — Local environmental activists are planning to hold a protest vigil on the Town Common on Monday night at 7 to urge President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline following the release of the State Department's Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Friday.

The State Department reported no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas, according to the Associated Press.

Environmentalists say that the pipeline “would be a huge source of carbon pollution and thus clearly fails the climate test set by President Obama,” according to a press release from the Amherst event organizers.

The event is organized and sponsored by Greening Grace, Climate Action Now MA, 350MA and the Enviro Show as part of a national campaign led by the groups CREDO, Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club, according to the release.

The report stops short of recommending approval of the pipeline, but the review gives Obama new support if he chooses to endorse it in spite of opposition from many Democrats and environmental groups, according to the news agency.

Beginning Wednesday there will be a 30-day comment period on the pipeline.